rsv - Amos:2:6-16

rsv@Amos:2:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes--

rsv@Amos:2:7 @ they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;

rsv@Amos:2:8 @ they lay themselves down beside every altar upon garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

rsv@Amos:2:9 @ "Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath.

rsv@Amos:2:10 @ Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

rsv@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?" says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:2:12 @ "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, `You shall not prophesy.'

rsv@Amos:2:13 @ "Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

rsv@Amos:2:14 @ Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;

rsv@Amos:2:15 @ he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

rsv@Amos:2:16 @ and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day," says the LORD.